Design Technologist (Designer)

Minutes To Seconds Pty Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital design firm in Dubai is seeking a Design Technologist to bridge the gap between design and development. The successful candidate will collaborate with designers to create interactive UI components using modern frameworks like React, VUE, or Angular. You will also work on maintaining design-system consistency and ensure responsive, accessible designs. A bachelor's degree and 2-5 years of experience in front-end design or UX engineering are preferred. Strong skills in communication and teamwork are essential.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years in front-end product design, UX engineering or similar.
• Experience working on or contributing to a design system.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers to translate high-fidelity UI designs into interactive coded UI components.
• Build and maintain design-system components ensuring design consistency across products.
• Develop accessible performant responsive interfaces.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3 (SASS/LESS)

JavaScript (ES6)

React/VUE/Angular

Figma

Version control (GitHub)

Agile/scrum experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in HCI, interaction design, computer science or related field

Tools

Storybook

Webpack

Figma to code plugins

Job description

Role Overview

A Design Technologist in a design systems unit serves as a bridge between designers and developers supporting both to build consistent high-quality digital products across the organization. Design system engineer acts as a workflow integrator ensuring cohesion between design and engineering.

Ideal for someone who can take design ideas from prototypes through to production-ready code.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers to translate high-fidelity UI designs into interactive coded UI components.
• Build and maintain design-system components (React VUE Angular) ensuring design consistency across products.
• Develop accessible performant responsive interfaces (WCAG standards internationalization).
• Document design patterns assist in creating/maintaining the style guide and code library.
• Document Design System components in Storybook.
• Work within agile methodologies participate in Agile ceremonies across Tribes.
• Collaborate closely with front-end engineers to refine component define and integrate design tokens and APIs.

Requirements & Skills

Technical Skills:

• HTML5 CSS3 (SASS/LESS) JavaScript (ES6) solid foundation.
• Familiarity with at least one modern UI framework or library (React/VUE/Angular).
• Build/design tooling: Storybook STYLEGUIDIST Figma to code plugins Babel Webpack.
• Understanding of component architecture: THEMING tokens props API.
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.0/2.1) responsive design mobile-first.
• Version control (GitHub).
• Agile/scrum experience.

Design & UX Skills:

• Proficient in Figma.
• Strong sense of interaction visual and motion design with attention to detail.
• UX fundamentals: user flows accessibility inclusive design.
• Familiarity with ISO usability standards (ISO 9241) a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication & cross-functional teamwork abilities.
• Problem-solving mindset and attention to detail.
• Analytical mindset: use data & feedback to iterate.
• Self-starter proactive in system improvements.

Experience & Qualifications

• 2-5 years in front-end product design UX engineering or similar.
• Experience working on or contributing to a design system.
• Bachelor's degree in HCI interaction design computer science or related field preferred.

Education

2-5 years in front-end, product design, UX engineering or similar. Bachelor's degree in HCI, interaction design, computer science, or related field preferred.